Michael Franti and Spearhead
4th Annual 911 Power To The Peaceful Free Concert, Social Justice & Peace Rally
Speedway Meadows, Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA
9/7/2002
SOURCE: SBD > Sony M-1 > Sony PCM 2300 > SB Audigy Platinum (spdif) > CDWAV > MKW > SHN [seekable]
DISC #1 (51:29:45)
1. Intro
2. Everyone Deserves Music
3. People In The Middle
4. Stay Human
5. Never Too Late
6. Radioactive Solor
7. Rock The Nation
8. Words
9. Bomb The World
10. Michael Speaks
11. Sometimes
12. Outro
NOTES:
Spearhead is:
Michael Franti - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Dave Shul - Electric Guitar
Carl Young - Bass
Mannas Itiene - Drums
Radioactive - Human Beat Box
Kevin Choice - Keyboards *
*Bob Crawford fills in for Kevin on this show.
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FLAWS:
None.
TAPE AND TRANSFER:
This show was taped off the SOUNDBOARD by Dan Kramer (tahoesparit) on his Sony M-1 DAT.
Soundboard Mix by Tige. Transferred by Matt Ziegler (spearits@loveisdashit.com)
Sony PCM 2300 DAT Digital out > S/PDIF in Audigy Soundblaster Platinum via CD WAVE
at 44.1 khz 16 Bit Stereo.
Tracked in CDWAVE by Matt Ziegler. SHN'd by Matt Ziegler via MKW (SEEKABLE)
REVIEW: by Dan Kramer
The day got started early (some earlier than others, Michael was there at 6:30am
with the volunteers to make sure everything was going OK) with all sorts of people
around setting up the stage, DJ tent, bike parking, art displays, food, activism
and merch boothes and tables. Volunteers walked around with bright green shirts
that said, "Ask Me" on them for people looking for information about the day's
events. Michael was seen helping out and doing interviews throughtout the day as
the field was starting to look like a huge organic music and activism stadium.
After a slight generator problem, the concert would hit its last obstical, and
the show would start about an hour late. Everyone's set would get cut short a
little, but it wasn't just about the music today. This day would be about learning,
sharing, talking, having fun and uniting! After Amy Goodman spoke, we heard from
Sat Santokh and then Mumia Abu Jamal via tape recorder. From there it was all up to
the boys to give the crowd of 15,000-20,000 people exactly what they had been waiting
for.
Michael lead the band into Everyone Deserves Music ending the song with, "Even all
my friends out here in Golden Gates Park, you all deserve music!!" Carl counted the
guyz into People In The Middle reggae style. The sound by this time was dialed in
perfectly by Tige, Spearhead's soundwomen, and the band didn't miss a beat going
right into Stay Human.
Being in S.F. you know the freaks come out in the day and by the first verse there
were huge puppets, people dressed up supa freaky and stilt walkers surrounding the
front of the stage getting the crowd hyped and bouncin'. Karl Denson was in town
playing two nights at the Fillmore and stopped by just in time to hop on stage and
rock out with the band. Next, the guyz would take it down a notch with the new song,
Never Too Late which had the whole crowd singing. Radio took over for a minute with
his panflute and beatboxing as he then leads 15,000 to 20,000 arms swaying back and
forth to the force of Rock the Nation.
What a site to see that many people all acting as one even if it was just arms
swaying back and forth. Once the frenzy subsided from Rock The Nation, Michael speaks
for a moment about it being so nice to look into the eyes of so many other people
today that believe that peace is not only the absense of war but the presence of
justice! And then he said today is a day that we come together to say that we should
not be engaging in a war on terrorism, we should be engaging in a war on militarism!!
Michael starts to play Bomb the World then stops and puts down his guitar because it
was out of tune and sings acapella the rest of the verse while clapping. Dave joins
in on electric guitar for the chorus as Michael gets the whole crowd of 20,000 clapping
while he sings the chorus. The claps of the huge crowd echoed throughout the park and
it was quite weird yet powerful to here that kind of unity! Michael big ups everyone
for their participation, thanks Anthony for the flower arrangement he provided for the
stage, and then he goes on to say that Anthony brought 300 roses for the band to pass
out but they want everyone to enjoy one for a minute and then pass it on so people all
the way in the back can enjoy them as well! He thanks KPFA 94.1fm and even the cops.
Michael lets everyone know that when they planned the event, everyone picked a job
and Mike picked recycling. So he brought out a bunch plastic bags and passed them out
and said that he wanted to leave this place cleaner than when they found it and not
to leave even a cigarette butt laying around. Michael goes on to say, "but right now
we are gonna rock you". Dave then proceeds to start playing the openning riff to
Sometimes. Karl Denson comes back out to join the band as they rock everyone out one
last time before calling it a day. The event was a huge success and hopefully
tomorrow's social forum exploring social and human rights issues at the New College
would be just as successful!